Philip J. Stern

An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all...

A Spectator Book of the Year "Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about empire." - William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire "Remarkable…The richness of detail and evidence that Stern brings to his subject is [new] - as is the lucidity with...